Here’s the week ahead in Capitol Hill (and beyond!) things to do. Hill highlights include SPD police chief at Seattle U Thursday night, Friday family story hour and Queer Youth Space’s annual rummage sale on Saturday. Details below.

Thursday, January 27th

• OOPS! Almost forgot… UPDATE: 1 Year Anniversary Party at the Unicorn.
• Pepper Rabbit & Ra Ra Riot @ Neumo’s
• Happy Birthday, Mozart! Byron Schenkman and friends (soprano Linda Tsatsanis, violinist Ingrid Matthews, cellist Nathan Whittaker, and pianist Rachel Matthews) celebrate chamber Mozart @ Town Hall
• Arias from Aida to Turandot: Soloists and the Seattle Symphony Chorale present the “Opera Highlights Festival, Part 1” @ Benaroya Hall
• SPD Chief John Diaz at January’s East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition meeting. Seattle U. 6p

Friday, January 28th

• 18th Annual Garfield Winter Waltz at Benaroya Hall. 7:30p
• Friday Family Story Hour at Hamlin Robinson School. East Union at 18th Ave. 9:30a.

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• Eric Elbogen is releasing a new album as Say Hi; with support from local pop charmers the Globes & Cataldo @ Neumo’s
• SOLD OUT: Interpol, post-Carlos D, tours behind their forthcoming album with help from School of Seven Bells @ Showbox SoDo
• Karl Blau, the Pica Beats, & the Soft Hills @ the Sunset Tavern
• Missed Baaria at the opening of the Venice Film Festival? This expensive Italian film about a tough kid who grows up to be a communist run sthrough Feb. 3 @ SIFF Cinema
• The Seattle Children’s Film Festival kicks off tonight and runs through February 6th with all sorts of family-friendly fare @ NWFF
• The amazing young violinist Marié Rossano joins the Lake Union Civic Orchestra for “Bruch and Bruckner” @ Town Hall
• Seattle Modern Orchestra goes “Strictly Strings” (Vivier, Xenakis, Adams) @ Cornish’s PONCHO Hall
• Seattle Dance Project’s “Project 4” features the works of female choreographers @ the Erickson Theater Off Broadway

Jacque Tati’s “My Uncle”

Saturday, January 29th

• Queer Youth Space: Big Queer Jumble Sale II, 1-5p at Healthy Fun Times Club (secret location on Hill. E-mail [email protected] for location.
• Coffee with the Sallys. Coffee with City Council members Clark and Bagshaw at First Hill’s Corner Cafe. 9a
• Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit: Seattle Chinatown/International District Second Annual Children’s Costume Parade and Contest. 1:30p.
• Your choice: “Backyard Beekeeping 101“or “City Chickens 101” @ the Good Shepherd Center
• The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger‘s bio reads like a riddle wrapped in an enigma of discarded metaphors filtered through a few layers of machine translation, but it’s Sean Lennon’s band with Kemp Muhl. Listen to their tiny desk concert, then see them for yourself @ the Crocodile.
• School of Rock presents the Best of Bowie (early); Emerald City Soul Club takes over later for Talcum @ Chop Suey
• FREE: Eleven-string archguitar hero Jon Mendle plays @ the Frye Art Museum
• Opera from Donizetti, Offenbach, Gershwin, and more: Soloists and the Seattle Symphony Chorale present the “Opera Highlights Festival, Part 2” @ Benaroya Hall
• Jacque Tati’s My Uncle has “dozens of variations from Mon Oncle” (besides being in English). This rare alternate-universe Tati shows through Feb. 3 @ the Northwest Film Forum
• Sister Kate Presents “Cocktails and Cabaret” — Odd Fellows West Hall. 8:30p.

Sunday, January 30th

• Pike Brewing invites you to the Annual Old Bawdy Vertical Tasting (vintages from 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010) @ the Pike Pub & Brewery’s Museum Room
• Even if you haven’t moved past Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil, Blake Schwarzenbach has, in the form of his new band Forgetters @ Vera Project
• Enjoy some of the best shorts from this year’s Science Fiction and Fantasy film festival during their encore screening @ SIFF Cinema
• Superviolinist Itzhak Perlman plays Mendelssohn (and Dvorak’s 8th) with the Seattle Symphony @ Benaroya Hall
• This would be a good time to catch the new 35mm print of African Queen (through Feb. 3) @ the Grand Illusion

Monday, January 31st

• Women in Film presents Jane Campion’s Bright Star (the one about John Keats and Fanny Brawne) @ Central Cinema
• The latest Foodportunity networking event features celebrity cookbook author Kristine Kidd @ Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom
  

Tuesday, February 1st

• Tennis, a married duo from Denver spent half a year on a boat and came out of the experience with a fuzzy rock record instead of a divorce, see them on dry land @ the Croc
• I Was a Fat Kid…I Was a Really Fat Kid!, the solo show from Portland’s Nathaniel Boggess opens @ Annex Theatre